Resources, environment, and population : present knowledge, future options; based on a conference held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1 - 3 February 1989
Kingsley Davis ..., ed.
| Alternative title: | Population and development review |
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| Year of publication: |
1991
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| Other Persons: | Davis, Kingsley (ed.) ; Bernštam, Michail S. (contributor) |
| Institutions: | Hoover Institution (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press New York : Population Council |
| Subject: | Steady-State-Ökonomie | Steady-state economics | Umwelt | Environment | Bevölkerungsentwicklung | Demographic development | Natürliche Ressourcen | Umweltschutz |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] ; Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [loc.gov] ; Description [loc.gov] |
| Extent: | XII, 423 S. graph. Darst. |
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| Series: | Population and development review. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, ISSN 0098-7921, ZDB-ID 198595-4. - Vol. 16, supplement (1990) |
| Conferences: | Conference held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; (Stanford, Calif.) : 1989.02.01-03 |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Konferenzschrift ; Conference proceedings ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Based on a conference held at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1-3 February 1989 Population and resources : fact and interpretation / Kingsley Davis -- Sustainable development : from concept and theory to operational principles / Herman E. Daly -- Long-run global population forecasts : a critical appraisal / Ronald D. Lee -- Comment : on the uncertainty of population projections / Griffith Feeney -- Comment : reflections on "time left us" / Kenneth W. Wachter -- Rapid population growth and water scarcity : the predicament of tomorrow's Africa / Malin Falkenmark --Energy, people, and industrialization / Amory B. Lovins -- Land use, migration, and natural resource deterioration : the experience of Guatemala and the Sudan / Richard E. Bilsborrow, Pamela F. DeLargy. World urbanization in perspective / Ira S. Lowry -- On the interactions between climate and society / Michael H. Glantz -- Comment : environmental risk and policy response / Richard Elliot Benedick -- Acid rain and other airborne pollutants : their human causes and consequences / Ellis B. Cowling -- Ocean space : use and protection / Edward D. Goldberg -- The world's forests and human populations : the environmental interconnections / Norman Myers -- Comment : on the medicinal value of tropical ecosystems / Eugene Zavarin -- Comment : population effects on deforestation and soil erosion in China / Jing-Neng Li -- Winners and losers in the twentieth-century struggle to survive / Peter H. Raven. Biomass burning in the tropics : impact on environmental quality and global climate / Meinrat O. Andreae -- Toward a theory of population-development interaction / Nathan Keyfitz -- Comment : the second tragedy of the commons / Ronald D. Lee -- Comment : the "one world" thesis as an obstacle to environmental preservation / Virginia Abernethy -- Comment : adverse environmental consequences of the Green Revolution / David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel -- The wealth of nations and the environment / Mikhail S. Bernstam -- Population and resources under the socialist economic system / Elwood Carlson, Mikhail S. Bernstam -- Tradeoffs between human numbers and material standards of living / Paul Demeny. |
| ISBN: | 0-19-507049-6 ; 0-19-507050-X |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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